Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

How the creator of a popular Boston museum refined her artistic vision.

The CIA: An Imperial History

What did the spy service learn from colonialism?

Forgiving Imelda Marcos

This poignant debut asks: Who’s entitled to offer absolution?

The Supermajority

By Michael Waldman

The Supermajority

Chronicling a right-wing cabal’s fracturing of norms in the U.S.

Tehrangeles: A Novel

By Porochista Khakpour

Tehrangeles: A Novel

A mostly successful skewering of influencer culture and the super-wealthy.

Getting to Know Death: A Meditation

A wise, wandering contemplation of what comes next.